...behavior, attitudes, and performance (Noe, et al. 2006). An analysis of work is considered a building block for most HR systems in organizations. Corporate restructuring processes, quality improvement programs, human resource planning, job design, recruitment strategies, training programs, succession planning, and compensation systems are among the other HR activities that are based on work analysis (Bernardin, 2008). Choosing a job that interested me to perform a work analysis was not easy; I really wanted to take this opportunity to put to work the information learned in Chapter 3 and 4 of our class with a job that it always interested me in learning on how they perform their job and what it takes to do the job. I chose a sign language interpreter from my previous job at the National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center. I worked for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center for 7 years and felt totally committed in complying with their mission to clinical research. The NIH Clinical Center (CC) is the clinical research hospital for the National Institutes of Health. It's the nation's largest hospital devoted entirely to clinical research. Through clinical research, clinician-investigators translate laboratory discoveries into better treatments, therapies and interventions to improve the nation's health. About 1,500 clinical research studies currently are active at the NIH Clinical Center. About half are the first tests of new drugs or medical treatment in...
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...paper. I walked in and asked where the Deaf Community event was held and headed over. It was a nice size gathering, people were enjoying themselves and there wasn’t any stress in the air. I thought it would be like a continuous signing environment where everyone signed rapidly but it was relaxed and there were people there who were interpreters. I was looking around and noticed a middle age women standing there and observing, just like me. I went ahead and introduced myself and we began to sign. Her name was Jennifer, she could speak but had been signing for 3years. I told her how I was taking American Sign Language at ARC. She also asked me about what I do and what I why I decided to take ASL instead of the many other choices of languages that were presented. I told her that I am a nurse and now teach at a nursing program in the Arden area. I decided to take ASL after having an encounter with a patient presented in the ER for syncope, did not speak English, only what seemed to be like ASL. No one on staff knew what she was trying to say until we got hold of an Interpreter. Then I told her that it would be a good Idea to learn another language and ASL seemed like a good fit because I would never want to put myself or my colleagues in that...
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...Personal Responsibility and Dream of Success James W. Lago GEN/200 April 28, 2014 Mr. D. Gross Abstract Personal responsibility and dream of success will be defined by the author in relation to the author’s experience. The relationship between personal responsibility and dream of success will be briefly explained. The authors will show how personal responsibility in his life with school, families and social. The authors will tell you about his dream of success. Personal Responsibility and Dream of Success Today the dream has all but disappeared. Is it? I know I have a dream when I graduated from high school. I had set my goal that I will go to college to get BA degree in business. I set a goal when I graduated from college, and looking for a job, and get my own place. I had planned to move out of my parent’s home. That was when I set my personal responsibility, and I had a dream of success. Being personal responsibility, I set out a plan when I was a teenage; I believed that I could do it as well as other people. I always have a dream about being successful, and about getting my master degree someday, and getting my own business. That was my dream, hasn’t disappeared yet. I will always follow my dream and proof my family that I’ve completed my master degree in the future. That was my dream of success. What’s personal responsibility mean to you? I am sole responsibility for the decision in my life. I am responsible for what I choose to feel...
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...Theresa Luke 11/24/14 ASL 101 “Love is Never Silent” Reaction Paper The movie, “Love is Never Silent”, a “Hallmark Hall of Fame” film, is based on a young girl whose parents are not part of the hearing world during the Depression of the 1930’s. Margaret, the daughter of Janice and Abel, is the only hope they have in order to stay connected to the hearing world. By using American Sign Language, Margaret has helped her parents stay in tune with what’s going on in the outside world. Margaret’s childhood consisted of keeping her parents connected with the hearing world. This meant that she hardly had any time to herself. She had to grow up a lot faster than the kids she went to school with because it was like Margaret was taking care of her parents and not being raised by them. Most, if not any of the kids she went to school with were not interpreting American Sign Language for their parents. In fact, nobody even knew that Margaret’s parents were deaf because she was worried that people would look at her funny or make fun of her parents for it. Margaret grew up hearing awful comments and stereotypes about deaf people that fortunately couldn’t be heard by her parents. As Margaret grew older and found love and independence outside of her home, her parents become bitter and distraught by it. Her wanting to be able to be free and do things like getting married to a man upset her parents. Janice and Abel looked at this as Margaret deserting and leaving them lost in the hearing...
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...|Cultural Comparison of Deaf Culture and Hearing Culture in the USA | |(Using the Hofstede Cultural Comparison Assignment as a guide) | |Where Deaf Culture Would Score If Included in the Geert Hofstede™ Cultural Dimensions | | | |Nathaneil Godfrey | | | PDI Power Distance Indicator Power distance This dimension deals with the fact that all individuals in societies are not equal – it expresses the attitude of the culture towards these inequalities amongst us. Power distance is defined as the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organisations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally. It has to do with the fact that a society’s inequality is endorsed by the followers as much as by the leaders. http://geert-hofstede.com/ Deaf culture I think Deaf culture...
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...SILA 306 ASL 2 What is Deafhood as respecting in the deaf culture? Deafhood is a term that loosely means a Deaf person finding and understanding their Deaf culture. This is not a static term and it usually refers to a process by which a Deaf person must go through in order to discover themselves and their roles in the Deaf community. Deafhood is a word that was coined by the author of Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood, by Paddy Ladd. With regards to deafness, the people of the past felt lost or upset with being deaf. The families of the deaf would force their children to go to a hearing school and assimilate with their culture. Schools would have to put labels on the children’s clothing to differentiate them. I think that these measures would make a child uncomfortable with his deafness. There were not many schools that a child can have access to so it would be understandable that the child will feel frustrated with himself about his situation. Ladd’s book asserts that deafness is a positive thing and that one should embrace their deafness. On a similar note, the deaf should not consider their inability to hear as a disease or handicap that needs to be cured. Deafhood is the understanding of how remarkable it is to be Deaf and be okay with that. These days with the internet and technology, it is easy for a child and his family to find a community near them. It is a lot easier to have a deaf person reach Deafhood, much like a normal child would reach...
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...Report. Communication Forms: Written: Written communication is a way of two individuals to communicate. E.G. text messaging, email, letters, and reports. When writing an email to someone, it can make it easier for you and the person receiving the email because it is instant and do not have to wait for it to be received either through the post or finding the person to give it to them. An email can be useful because an email can be sent to many different people instead of just one person receiving it. Phones can receive emails which is useful because if the person is out they can receive the email to their phones. Problems with emails is that the emails can be sent to a trash folder which means you will not know that you have been sent the email. Not every email is received and having a crowded inbox can mistake you for a different email or you may not see the email. Touch: Touch communication can show a person reassurance, empathy and also respect. Being touched can be people’s weak points, some may not want to be touched or like being touched. Touching can invade people’s person space, or it can be sexual harassment. It is important to remember when communicating through touch that other cultures non-verbal communication is different to other cultures. Using touch communication can let deaf or blind people know that you are in their presence. A hand on the shoulder for one person may mean a supportive gesture, handshakes are a common form of touch communication, and a gentle...
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...Homework for Tony Badano | | 01/15/2012 Sunday | 01/16/2012 Monday | 01/17/2012 Tuesday | 01/18/2012 Wednesday | 01/19/2012 Thursday | 01/20/2012 Friday | 01/21/2012 Saturday | 8th Period (8TH-P81) | No items found | No items found | No items found | No items found | No items found | No items found | No items found | American Sign Language 1 CP (ASL_1-P6) | No items found | American Sign Language 1 CP Riddle due on Thursday | American Sign Language 1 CP Riddle due on Thursday. | American Sign Language 1 CP riddle due tomorrow | American Sign Language 1 CP Practice your vocab with your created sentences. | American Sign Language 1 CP Practice vocab with your created sentences. | No items found | Bible 9-10 (Bible 9-10-P5) | No items found | Bible 9-10 Read I Kings by Friday and get a parent signature..... Write a 3 part essay on I Kings and turn it in on Friday.,,,,,,,,, Bible Memory due on Thursday - I Kings 9:4-7b | No items found | Bible 9-10 Bible Memory due on Thursday - I Kings 9:4-7b | No items found | No items found | No items found | Earth/Physical Science CP (EARTH-PHYS-P2) | No items found | No items found | Earth/Physical Science CP will be updated daily by 3:30pm Lab Report on Diffusion and Osmosis typed Due Thursday 1/19 (if not turned in at beginning of class it is a zero - no exceptions - No lates will be excepted) | Earth/Physical Science CP Lab Report on Diffusion and Osmosis typed Due Thursday 1/19 (if not turned...
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...Running head: HUMAN SERVICE ORGANIZATION Human Service Organization Building Community in Human Service Organizations BSHS 461 December 7, 2011 The "American Society For Deaf Children" (2010) website states that the American Society for Deaf Children (ASDC) began in 1967 for parents to help each other through the network. ASDC is an independent, national non-profit organization that helps millions of parents, families, and friends with questions he or she may have to help their loved ones. Organizations Vision ASDC is a parent-helping-parent organization for those families with deaf or hard of hearing children. ASDC educates, promotes, and advocates for high quality programs and services for those children, and families. Organization Mission The mission of The American Society for Deaf Children (ASDC) is to support and educate families of deaf and hard of hearing children, and advocate by providing high quality programs and services. Organization Funding ASDC is a non-profit foundation that advocates the rights and education for the deaf children and hare-of-hearing. This organization gratefully accepts donations, which will help provide better resources, richer conventions, and more services. Roles of the Organization The American Society of Deaf Children provides support to parents, grandparents, friends, and families by giving he or she support through the website. The website provides resources with a list of articles that parents or family members can...
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...Core study 1 Asch 1955 : Aims and Context Summarise the aims and context of Asch’s 1955) research opinions and social pressure An individual is said to conform if they chose to study a course of action that is favoured by the majority or that is considered socially acceptable .When an individual is influenced by how the majority of people think this is considered socially acceptable Conformity is a form of social influence that results from exposure to the majority position , the tendency for people to adopt the behaviour, attitudes and values of other members of a reference groups, This was a study of conformity in an ambiguous situation ‘unclear’. Jenness asked students to guess how many beans there were in a jar,they were then asked to discuss in groups. Lastly they were asked to give their estimates again, individuals estimates tended to converge to the group norm.It seems reasonable that when in an ambiguous situation (were the answer isn't obvious ) we look to others to get some ideas about behaviour . Jenness's research is limited as he specifically asked participants to produce a group estimate rather than just observing if they would produce group estimates. Sherif conducted a similar investigation into responses to an ambiguous stimulus using the auto kinetic effect ( this is where a stationary spot of light projected on to a screen appears to move) Sherif told participants he was going to move the light , he asked the pp’s to estimate by how far the spotlight...
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...Mason AIU Online Language is a crucial component of everyone’s culture and values. Everyone communicates with others in different ways depending on one’s culture. There are also different key factors that can be put into play about a person communication for example, sign language. If someone cannot hear or speak than sign language becomes their form of communication. There are many various types of communication used to communicate with others. This is all based on the culture you are taught and use on an everyday basis. The communication style that one uses tells their audience many things about you without that person even speaking one single word. Take body language it can reveal so much about a person. Body language can be direct and intentional but most of it is subconscious and indirect. We use our hands when we speak and that tells others about you, like your thoughts and feelings even if that is not what you want them to know and if it is not what you’re actually talking about. Sign language is another form of communication that is used to communicate. This method of communication is nonverbal and is used mostly by deaf individuals and their close family and friends. There are actually two different types of sign language that is used. American Sign Language (ASL) and the Black American Sign Language (BASL). The Black American sign language is actually used to represent more culturally meaningful concepts for the African-American population. No matter...
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...Deaf Culture and History “Deaf culture is exactly what Carol Padden defines as a culture: a set of learned behaviors of a group of people that share a language, values, rules for behavior, and traditions.” ("Deaf Culture” ¶4). Deaf people of the world have lived in a secret shroud for quite some time. Less than centuries ago, deaf people didn't even have an official language. Over time those who were deaf created their own culture and language. Deaf people have had their beliefs and language evolve throughout history into something that can allow people to break communication barriers. Contrary to popular belief, sign language is not universal. Different languages have different forms of sign language and here in America, deaf people use ASL (American Sign Language). American Sign Language derived from French Sign Language, which was brought to America to help teach deaf people (“History of American Sign Language”). Today, ASL isn't just a language, but it is a culture of people who care for each other. Deaf people encourage people to use ASL as it is...
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...“Over 40 years of intensive research by Linguists, Psychologists, Psycholinguists, and Cognitive Neuroscientists, have demonstrated the signed languages of the world in general, and American Sign Language (ASL) in particular, are real languages” (Are Sign Languages Real Languages?). A Sign Language teacher’s salary is about $57,000 a year, while a private interpreter’s salary is about $75,000 a year. Even though a SL teacher would be payed about $20,000 less a year, if more people would learn sign language, more money could go to the teachers, instead of the government. Finding teachers to teach Sign Language, in a school system, is hard because Sign Language isn’t a well-known language, but if we started to teach it in schools that would bring...
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...CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Technology has always been a great part of people’s everyday lives. The innovation of every piece of work has been developed through the use of advanced technology and new innovations. These new technologies and innovations are bringing people to new perspective of daily living. Nowadays, people are very technology conscious that it seems that they cannot live now without these new technologies, such as using the internet to feed their conscious minds, to browsing for new menus, to searching the most popular and highest paid personalities, to political issues point of view, and sometimes to showcasing the talents of the most talented even though some of these talented are specially able people. Many people are very thankful that one of the greatest inventions in human kind is the mobile phone.Many tools and applications have been invented and are continuously being produced. One of the most significant technology advances in education is also the use of mobile application. Through these mobile phones, people can easily communicate with one another, whether some of these people are normal or some are especiallyabled ones. Also, through these mobile phones, conflicts or misunderstandings can be solved; sometimes a fight can also ignite through it if it was not used for good. But of course, we need to use the technology wherein we can benefit from it, and also we need to think of other people’s sake. As the saying goes, you are truly living and loving...
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...Hope Laurance ASL 102 LACD Essay After watching the video about the Los Angeles Club of the Deaf, I realized how much as a society, the Deaf have overcome. Personally, being a hearing person in an American Sign Language class, it is an experience in itself. When I first took ASL 101, it was like being immersed in a completely different world. A class where it is almost silent and the method of teaching is entirely different—many of my friends ask how it’s possible to learn a new language when speech isn’t involved, but the only thing I can say is that it is an experience like any other. The LACD was a place that gave the Deaf community the opportunity to gain lifelong friendships by not only socializing, but also allowing them to have a space where they could relax and be themselves. During the 1940-1980’s, the Deaf community wasn’t fully understood by the hearing world. It was as if the two worlds were completely split—acceptance of the differences was hard to come by. Watching the documentary on the LACD reminded me of a scene from the Great Gatsby—the elegance of the rooms shown in the movie and the livelihood of the parties made it seem like the place to be. What surprised me the most about the film is how similar it looked to what a hearing party/club would be like. There was music, food, dancing and games—in the movie; no one would be able to tell there was anything different about it. It was also amazing to see how much of an impact this club has made to so many...
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